Fascinating article about the failure and complicity of the BBC regarding transactivism

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In Unherd

https://archive.ph/hxJFg

https://unherd.com/2026/05/inside-the-capture-of-the-bbc/?edition=us

Long but worth a read.

But then you do have to ask yourself why are all the people who may be a better option never putting themselves forward.

That is really the issue.

That so many people dont want to be part of the political system / parties.

Just watch any episode of Have I Got News For You: Every joke is about Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage or Donald Trump.

To be fair to HIGNFY, those four people do provide a hell of a lot of comedy material. It is hard not to laugh at people who are utterly laughable.

I used to get very bored with HIGNFY in the days when every other joke was about George W. Bush. OK, he was a nepo president and I didn't support the war in Iraq, but in other respects he didn't seem that funny. Now he looks like a giant of international statesmanship compared with more recent US and UK leaders. How blessed we are.

Yeah. When G. Dubya starts to look like a statesman, you know we're in trouble.

I think it is more the fact that the parties themselves are undemocratic and have weakened the democratic power of the people.

No matter who a candidate is, or what they stand for, without the party, they cannot achieve anything. Money is the most basic and obvious point, but not the only one.

We saw that very clearly in the US with both parties - Hillary Clinton endorsed by the party, while the grass roots were for Sanders. Biden promoting Harris (a brilliant woman but a terrible politician) regardless of her voter appeal, into an elected office. Trump and his dictator like hold on the Republican Party where loyalty to him is the only price of entry.

We see it in the UK too.

The parties control everything, and as such are very undemocratic.

In response to responses my post about why are more sane or even just competent people putting themselves forward.

I am only too well aware that the party machine detroys people and probably worse the media turing the whole thing into a sort of reality show, so no one can just be normal (and maybe boring) and getting on with the job.

Maybe it is time that as well as the growth in smaller parties more people stood as independents.

If elected as an MP they would have the same power as a local MP who was part of a party to help local constituents.

And in terms of votes in the HoC they would vote on what they think best or even abstain.

And just keep their constituents updated.

It would make voting in the HoC more democratic as it wouldn't be votes coerced by Party Whips.

I think for people whose primary interest is to be a constituency MP, rather than just seeing it as a stepping stone to being a minister or something, they could provide a much needed level of democratic accountability.

This is a discussion with Victoria Derbyshire in 2015 I just came across while looking for something else.

It has to be seen to be believed. It ought to be removed from the internet imo as harmful to children.

Shocking
“75% who meet criteria for gender dysphoria, by the time they hit puberty no longer identify in that way”
I think Victoria Derbyshire could have laboured that point
The stats I have heard are even higher.

I felt really sad listening to one of the young people speak of the distress they experienced at the pubescent changes in their body. These changes can be very distressing for some people, but you can get through them and happily grow into your body. Hormones and Surgery are being sold as a cure for distress and these kids become lifelong patients. No accountability from the adults (psychologists/endocrinologists/surgeons and journalists) who should know better.

As far as I am concerned, Victoria Darbyshire may as well have had three anorexics on her panel and their enabler.

Interesting!
For anyone unaware this discussion seems balanced and reasonable as you’d expect from the BBC - unhappy child, time to think etc etc.

But it’s blatant propaganda talking about kids age 5 being trans but washing over that they can’t be able to consent to their own sterilisation!! And not linking that to the 75% who she dysphoria stops after puberty - what if these 2 little kids got it wrong?

And saying the Dutch study was really successful?! Susie Green spouts a lot of false facts and is unchallenged- “our children are dying because they aren’t getting help”

I’d love to see these young people now 11 years on being re-interviewed. Did they get all the mental health benefits they hoped for? Presumably some will have but Loretta had been on blockers for less than a year and was planning lots of surgery. The TIF had been on hormones for 6 years and was nearly finished all the surgeries. Maybe they all had brilliant results or maybe they didn’t but surely we need to hear the good and bad to work out if this was all a good idea or not.

I wonder how many 1000s more children started to think they were transgender because of that irresponsible propaganda?

Exactly

I'll never forgive Derbyshire for her multiple 'sad voice' programmes on this issue where she basically promoted Genderism. Sarah Smith, Kirsty Wark, and Cathy Newman are also news presenters who were very biased in favour of Genderism and happy to cede women's rights and legal protections to men. Lorraine Kelly has promoted stratospheric levels of gender bullshite over the years and seems happy to continue doing so.

I know there are multiple male presenters and journalists who push this propaganda as well but my strongest ire is for the female journalists & presenters who, in order to virtue signal, are happy to contribute to a political project that would ruin the lives of women and children. They should know better because they are also women.

Why should we assume they should know better because they are women?

These are all very privileged and successful women. I'd be surprised if any aren't middle class.

How many fall into the 'at risk' groups as highlighted by Hannah Barnes?

Correct, it's often a class thing too. To quote Róisín Michaux, "You meet more perverts when you're poor."

And yet 95% of the Left don't get this?

I don't think the left is the left any more.

It struck me yesterday reading a man on the left, as coding to him, taking about how the stupid working classes vote against their own interests because they are uneducated.

It struck me - he hates working class people. They are nothing to him.

I think that is common. In what way are people who think that way on the left? They aren't. I don't suppose they are on the right, either. They are something else.

The middle classes are quite happy when they are voting against the interests of working classes and how it benefits them. This is never talked about.

Here is that very interesting article by her.

4w.pub/you-meet-more-perverts-when-poor/